Alpine Road

The Alpine Road Amtrak station was a proposed train station located in Rockford, Illinois, and would have served a new Chicago-Rockford-Dubuque Amtrak route that was expected to begin operation in late 2014 or early 2015. The station would have primarily served the large and growing south and east sides of the city of Rockford, as well as nearby Cherry Valley and Belvidere, Illinois. Formerly, as part of the downtown station's design job, there was a consultant team hired to analyse the pollution issues with the footprint of the Alpine Road station.Cancellation of ProposalOn April 10, 2014, a new plan for Amtrak service that would omit a station on Alpine Road in Rockford was released due to the inability for IDOT to negotiate a deal with the Canadian National Railway, who owns the tracks the old proposal was going to use. The new proposal is going to use a route through downtown Elgin, Huntley, and Belvidere before terminating in Rockford.